The painting depicts a butterfly, a totem of the Teeki group of clans. The butterfly is depicted twice, once in the top part of the painting and once, inverted and symmetrically and opposed to the first, in the lower part. The butterfly is represented only by its coloured wings; these are the two pairs of ‘hook’ forms. The black roundel outlined by concentric white, yellow and red lines in the centre of the bark depicts a butterfly egg.